Gary and list: I was just now reminded by Nathan Houser that there is indeed such a list of entries to be found in Ken Ketner's primary bibliography of Peirce's writings (see P 00373), of which I have a copy though not in electronic form. There is a digitized version of the bibliography in the package INTELEX puts out in addition to the Collected Paper package: this second package also has the Nation articles in it (as well as a long-outdated secondary bibliography mostly compiled by me many years ago). I do have a an electronic copy of that but it is in Mac format and my Mac machine is not presently in working order. Maybe somebody that has a digitized copy of it can forward it to me to post, though..
In this version of the list -- the one in Ketner's primary bibliography -- there is one shortcoming, though it probably is not in practice a very serious one, namely, that it does not show what is NOT due to Peirce in the cases where someone else provided a part of the definition. (It seems to be common practice for lexicographers to supplement one another's work in this way, but I doubt that many of the entries due to Peirce will involve much of that, and we will usually have no difficulty in recognizing what is due to Peirce. If it looks philosophically interesting then it is likely due to Peirce.) Whether there is a version of it which does somehow convey that further information I do not know. Joe Ransdell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Ransdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" <peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu> Cc: "Kenneth Ketner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Fran¨ois Latraverse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:51 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: entelechy (CORRECTED) CORRECTED COPY Gary Fuhrman asks: How do we know which of the entries [in the Century Dictionary] were written by Peirce? And are those entries listed anywhere on the Net? REPLY; As best I can make out thus far, Gary, there is no available list anywhere on the Net, and the usual practice in determining whether or not a given entry is by Peirce is to look in a certain copy of the Dictionary itself -- or a copy made from that copy -- which contains some sort of notation alongside each entry which can be attributed to Peirce. Some sort of green line or something. I don't know for sure, but my impression is that it is an icon of a mark-up by Peirce himself in his own copy of the Dictionary. Several such icons of Peirce's marked copy exist, but not many, owing to the size of the Dictionary, which will have resulted in few people getting a copy and then managing somehow to modify it into being an icon of Peirce's copy. The Institute for Studies in.Pragmaticism has one. The Peirce Edition Project at IUPUI has one. The people at the university of Quebec at Montreal who are helping to put out the new edition by putting out the Century Dictionary as Volume 7 has one. Maybe there are others. I don't know. Now, if there is any such list of Peirce entries it is almost certainly one that was created either at the PEP or at Montreal for purposes of editing for the new edition, and there is almost certainly such a list at Montreal at this point. Whether they will be willing to make it available remains to be seen, but I will find out by cc'ing them a copy of this message in case no one there is on the list. This will also give them or any others in position to do so the opportunity to correct any mis-statement I have made about the matter here. It would clearly be advantageous of them to provide us with such a list of Peirce entries, though, since (1) that would take care of the problem of being pestered by us for this information on an item by item day-to-day basis, as will certainly be happening now that we are making use of the Dictionary here, and (2) the more the Dictionary is used here the more reason people will have to buy the volume they are putting out in the new edition, which will include much material from Peirce which is not in the published version of the Dictionary. Let's see what happens. Joe Ransdell. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
